Your junk drawer is five weekend projects short of a smart home.

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Smart speakers like the Google Nest Hub or Amazon Echo are convenient, but they come with trade-offs: you sacrifice control, ...

Your ESP32 can do far more than sit around being a Wi-Fi gadget.

Segregate your smart home gadgets with VLANs to stop hackers from accessing your main PCs. This guide explains OPNsense ...

Here's how I built a budget smart home setup using an IR blaster and Android phones. I also found a way to use Gemini totally ...

A DIY thermal camera detects warm movement and alerts Home Assistant, without sending the footage to the cloud.

The Shelly Plug US Gen4 is a Wi-Fi smart plug with power monitoring. Shelly is a popular brand with many Home Assistant users and is part of the Works with Home Assistant program. Several Shelly ...

The ESP32-H2 microcontroller offers ultra-low power for Zigbee smart home devices. It draws just 20mA compared to the 77mA of ...

Every ESP32 project I’ve built followed the same path. I found an outlet, ran a cable, and plugged it in. That’s the easiest ...